MM Carter
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Mary Carter writes for Young Adults. Her first novel Breathless and its sequel Out of Darkness are now available for sale as an ebook on Amazon (link below). Breathless made the Varuna/Harper Collins shortlist in 2013. Mary, a previous Adolescent school counselor, worked in schools and in private practice for 15 years in NSW. She and her husband and son have recently relocated to the beautiful Byron Bay hinterland where they own and run a small farm, producing citrus, native fruit and nuts and growing cattle.
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Breathless
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Contemporary YA Fiction
Charlie has lived life trying to avoid her mother, a narcissistic Sydney media personality who has put her career before her family for all of Charlie’s life. Desperate to forget the last year of her life, and escape the City, Charlie and her Dad, Mitch, move south from Sydney to the coastal town of Cronulla. But the memories of recent events flood her mind and stop her from breathing...then the blackouts come. Charlie meets similarly - distant Tyler, also new to the school. Tyler forced to leave promising career possibilities, elite schooling and all he’s ever known in Melbourne, finds himself on the run from someone else’s mistake. And sometimes mistakes have serious implications on our lives especially if the mistakes are made by someone we love. Falling for Tyler comes with a price, one Charlie is prepared to make even when they’re on the run from unexpected danger, with Tyler surviving a gunshot wound and both forced into witness protection. Witness protection is not the only difficulty Charlie faces when her mother shows up on the last day of school. It seems moving away from the city won’t stop her past from catching up with her. 
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Out of Darkness
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Contemporary YA Fiction
School is on break for the summer and Charlie and Tyler are together again facing a whole lot of tough situations. Forced to flee her home town to be out of reach of her tyrannical mother, Charlie joins Tyler and their mates Ruby, Eddy, Ellie and the forgiven Cohen on a week-long camping trip further down the idyllic south coast of NSW where white sand, blue skies, and scorching heat are soon replaced with disaster, distractions and intrigue. Filled with tension, mystery, grief and a little bit of romance the sequel to Breathless, follows Charlie and Tyler as they weave their way through the darkness of Melbourne streets; with Charlie facing danger this time kidnapped by Tyler’s greatest enemy, bittersweet loss; and a sweet new beginning. 
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